Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

National Broadband Plan: Discussion

Dr. Stjohn O'Connor:

I wanted to come in on one of the Senator's points on BCPs. One of the features of the BCP process, as everybody has spoken about, has been Covid. The solution we have had to put in place changed completely due to the demand for remote working. All of the BCPs connected these days are enabled for remote working facilities, including splitting it out to facilitate dedicated networks for individual companies. We also quite deliberately supported those BCPs and remote working hubs through the connected hubs call. If there is a demand for a specific solution, that can be accommodated within the BCP network. I encourage contact with us. We are more than happy to talk to the site managers. One can talk to a local broadband officer because, we have accommodated that. If there are people who do not have access to what they need, we can accommodate that through the BCP network. There are some restrictions on the base offering. It is sitting on a Government network, but we have accommodated specific offerings for individual companies.

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